Resistance and relevance

By 5th Place | August 25, 2022 |

More cold weather leads to gripes and complaints when resistance to what is takes over. Catching ourselves on the playground of negativity we turned to a more positive light and were reminded of the relevance of building emotional fitness.

Dealing with disappointment

By 5th Place | August 18, 2022 |

Warmer weather brought a bit of hope but disappointment stamped out the excitement and anticipation of long awaited trips and great games. While being tested to accept what is, we focused on some insights and motivation for building emotional fitness in the youth.

What is a world without women?

By 5th Place | August 11, 2022 |

A week where the bug baton was passed to Matthew, while the focus on women led us to ask the question: What needs to shift to make real change? A warm welcome for our retreat site visit and a splendid rugby performance rounded out a full and varied week.

Consistency, conversations and connecting

By 5th Place | July 14, 2022 |

Winning is great but sometimes losing is better. Consistently getting up, showing up, doing it over better, together wins games, contracts and leads to success in the long run. Having meaningful conversations, on the other hand, connects us and helps build successful relationships.

Challenges, champions and chats

By 5th Place | July 7, 2022 |

Navigating a challenging week of power outages, cold weather, and a generally depressed mood with a sliver of light banter about sport, a dive into forgiveness and a reminder that there is always a solution.

While feeling light headed and heavy hearted, a reminder

By 5th Place | May 19, 2022 |

A week begun light-headed and heavy-hearted brings with it a reminder to step out of the shadow, connect to our individual gifts and bring illumination to the world.

Taking inspiration from Nature

By 5th Place | March 24, 2022 |

Nature offers us many insights and lessons into a variety of topics that we, as human beings, would do well to take notice of. We explore some of these and how, by heeding them, we can find support in journey through life.

The Oscar Challenge 2022

By 5th Place | March 17, 2022 |

This year’s Oscar watching challenge, very much more challenge than Oscar revealed that the work of healing and growing is an ongoing process.

Never a straight line

By 5th Place | March 10, 2022 |

Between the desire to do something and the end product arrive all matter of surprising, unintended and unplanned events. From the discovery of a 70’s paving staple to the gift of a pile of sand, a simple change becomes somewhat more complicated and ever more interesting.